Best Parent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.”

People Hard Whole Parent Childhood Hard Work Quiet Elderly

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.”

Way Kids Able Remember Parent Debate Vocal

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.”

Firsts Would Be Parent Careers Standards Ambitious

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.”

Passion Courses Parent Saws Talent Understood Surfing My Passion Surfer

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.”

Kids Choices Parent Influence Grew Grew Up Collections

Author:Ryan Lewis

“There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family... and you have parents meet someone and they have kids and you're with that whole having to meet new people and be your family. That's always a hard thing to do.”

People Hard Whole Kids Parent Our Family Things To Do Divorced Hard Things Meeting New People

Author:Selena Gomez

“I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.”

Reason Kids Stuff Parent Loss Crazy Keys Painful Divorce Spots Therapy Thrown Locked Closets Buddy Colorful Locked Up Crazy Life

Author:Billy Ray Cyrus

“Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.”

Firsts Children Certain Parent Responsibility Teach Command

Author:Robert Jeffress

“Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.”

Ifs Heart Children Evil Parent Sin Responsibility Garden Our Children

Author:Robert Jeffress

“As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.”

People Thinking House Parent Drama Passionate Filmmaker Colorful Talkative

Author:David O. Russell

“There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.”

Want Humans Children Facts Culture Parent Lines Groups Bottom Daddy Bottom Line Orphanage

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.”

Thinking World Want Children Doe Problem Parent Answers Solutions Adults International Solve Brilliant Adoption Wanting More

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.”

World Children Dream Opportunity Parent Born Proud Raised Indian Heritage American Dream Halfway

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.”

Thinking Knows Kind Littles Important Ideas Dream Kids Able Wanted Parent Boys Support Crazy Mom My Mom Access Immigrants Racing Bike Supportive Surfing Crazy Things Boy Scout Bmx

Author:Terry Gross

“Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.”

Parent Witch Tattoo Charmed

Author:Alyssa Milano

“The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.”

Men Giving Children Parent Enemy Example Gratitude Men And Women Charity Loyalty Devotion Boss Mates Faithfulness Good Examples Best Gift Faith And Love

Author:Oren Arnold

“I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.”

People Hard Home America Parent Support Doors Missing Let Me Opening Chinese Worried Damage Restaurants Supermarkets Refrigerators Coming To America

Author:Wendi Deng Murdoch

“The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.”

Firsts Children Parent Teach Lessons Finest Faith And Courage

Author:Smiley Blanton

“Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.”

Want Children Parent Prayer Simple Known

Book:Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character

Source: Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character

“I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.”

Knows Parent Support Gay Good Parent Loving Family Gay Parents

Author:Juan Pablo Galavis

“I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents? Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination and I want them to know that I'm on their side.”

People Knows Want Feels Children Faces Father Parent Sides Gay Discrimination Being A Father Gay Friend

Author:Juan Pablo Galavis

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”

People World Trying Believe Parent Moral Red Crosses Vote Raised Obligation Save The World Being A Parent Moral Obligation Red Cross

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”

Whole Parent Answers Whole Family

Author:John Steinbeck

“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.”

Made Important Kids School Reading Parent Who I Am Very Inspirational

Author:Sasha Grey

“As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.”

Thinking Kids Young Parent Interest Can Do Primaries

Author:Terry McMillan

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.”

Felt Parent Lucky My Sister

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.”

Trying Age Wanted School Young Names Parent Comedy Fit Late Accents Young Age Trying To Fit In

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.”

People Kind Important Parent Taught Ambition Important Things Be Kind Aspire Cornerstones

Author:Rafe Spall

“I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around.”

Parent Homebodies

Author:Michael Fishman

“I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.”

“I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!”

Said Parent Adults Blessed Wow

Author:Olesya Rulin

“I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?”

People Want Children Ideas Home Together Parent Lonely Tests Why Not Old People Combining Orphanage

Author:Zhou Xun

“Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.”

Important Parent Acting Credit

Author:Alexander Gould

“Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.”

Writing Parent Cry New York Months Overwhelmed Boston Edits

Author:Alex Karpovsky

“I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.”

People House Parent Rooms Grandfather Uncles Cousin Aunt My Grandfather My Cousin

Author:Dichen Lachman

“I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. Im really drawn to those as well. All different genres.”

Wells Kind Different Film Hate Courses Parent Roles Comedy Horror My Favorite All Kinds Genre Dramatic Cheesy Horror Film Different Genres

Author:Liana Liberato

“My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.”

Home School Parent Supportive

Author:Clara Mamet

“I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.”

Parent Grew Grew Up

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.”

Thinking Kind Father Parent Son Becoming Father Son Father Son Relationship

Author:Francois Arnaud

“Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.”

Parent Grew Grew Up Cooks Restaurants Chef Food Love I Love Food

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.”

Country Parent Grew Grew Up Restaurants Pittsburgh

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.”

Shows Together Parent Sides Mom My Mom Costumes Cousin

Author:Maulik Pancholy

“I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.”

Mind Facts Remember Actors Left Parent Feet Concepts Pretending Discussing Of My Mind Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Dominique McElligott

“My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.”

Mother Father Parent Rights Movement Students Workers Active Civil Rights Secretary Committees Civil Rights Movement Panthers Coordinating Sncc

Author:Yaya DaCosta

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.”

People Trying Ideas Kids Together Opportunity Parent Offers Copies Carbon Aunt Love Each Other Chimes

Author:Sara Sheridan

“Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.”

Mind Children Helping Parent Imagination Levels Teacher Taste Anxiety Ambition Intellectual Adults Resources Areas Genuine Vanity Inquiry Exploits Unfamiliar Helping Children

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.”

Parent One Thing Taught

Author:Monica Raymund

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